Business, Spoken
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The 5 Instagram Features That US States Say Ruin Teens’ Mental Health
These five features of Instagram helped Meta deceptively hook teens and harm their mental health, allege lawsuits filed today by 42 US states.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Amazon’s AI-Powered Van Inspections Give It a Powerful New Data Feed
Amazon delivery drivers at hundreds of sites around the world will be asked to drive through camera-studded archways that log every dent, scratch, or damaged tire.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US Has Failed to Pass AI Regulation. New York City Is Stepping Up
The US Congress won’t pass federal AI regulation anytime soon. NYC is forging ahead with an AI Action Plan and a proposal for a new Office of Algorithmic Data Integrity.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Crypto Groups Gemini, Genesis, and DCG Sued for $1.1 Billion ‘Fraud’
New York’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against crypto companies, including the Winkelvoss twins’ Gemini, alleging they misled investors.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
AI Is Becoming More Powerful—but Also More Secretive
The companies behind ChatGPT and other popular and powerful AI systems aren’t transparent enough about their training data and how they work, according to a new report from Stanford University.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Teledriving Is a Sneaky Shortcut to Driverless Cars
German startup Vay is pushing teledriving—in which cars are remotely operated by humans—as easier to achieve than fully autonomous driving.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US Just Escalated Its AI Chip War With China
The American government has tightened its restrictions on exports of chips and chipmaking equipment, closing loopholes that let Chinese companies access advanced technology.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies
From the Philippines to Colombia, low-paid workers label training data for AI models used by the likes of Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare
Tech companies have laid off more than 400,000 people in the past two years. Competition for the jobs that remain is getting more and more desperate.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Chatbots Are Now Talking to Each Other
ChatGPT-style chatbots that pretend to be people are being used to help companies develop new product and marketing ideas.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Epic Games’ Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo
Bandcamp workers say they are unable to do their jobs and keep the platform operating after being locked out of critical systems. They’re also expecting layoffs.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Doctored Biden Video Is a Test Case for Facebook’s Deepfake Policies
Meta’s Oversight Board is reviewing Facebook’s decision not to remove a manipulated video posted during the US midterms, in an attempt to get it to clarify its policies on election deepfakes.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Deepfake Audio Is a Political Nightmare
British fact-checkers are racing to debunk a suspicious audio recording of UK opposition leader Keir Starmer.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech
The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs—and They’re Celebrating
ChatGPT-style AI can tackle the drudge work of responding to RFPs faster than humans. Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and others say productivity is spiking.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Google Assistant Finally Gets a Generative AI Glow-Up
Google is adding AI capabilities from its chatbot Bard to the humble Google Assistant, allowing the virtual helper to make sense of images and draw on data in documents and emails.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sam Bankman-Fried Is a Terrible Client
Criminal defendants often decline to testify at trial for fear of incriminating themselves. For FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, that could be the best option.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The 15-Minute City Conspiracy Theory Goes Mainstream
The fringe idea that cities built for biking and walking are part of a government plot has been picked up by … the UK government.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Global Victims of FTX’s Collapse Won’t Get Their Day in Court
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is about to stand trial in the US. But many customers who lost big when the exchange collapsed are unlikely to get their money back.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
FedEx’s New Robot Loads Delivery Vans Like It’s Playing 3D Tetris
FedEx handles over 15 million packages daily. A two-armed, AI-infused robot is now helping pack some of them into delivery vans with expert care.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Idris Elba Is Ready to Talk About Crypto
During the crypto gold rush, Idris Elba says he turned down a lot of “mad opportunities.” Now he has partnered with the “crypto-for-good” Stellar Development Foundation.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training
The FBI makes heavy use of face recognition services like that of controversial startup Clearview AI, but 95 percent of the agents using them haven’t completed training on the technology.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
ChatGPT Can Now Talk to You—and Look Into Your Life
ChatGPT inches closer to feature parity with the seductive AI assistant from Her, thanks to an upgrade that adds voice and image recognition to the chatbot.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Workers Demand Job Security in the Autonomous, Electrified Future of Transport
Truck drivers, auto workers, and others are fighting for the greener, smarter era of transportation to also include better pay and more protections for humans.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meet the Law Geeks Exposing Google’s Secretive Antitrust Trial
A historic antitrust trial sees Google accused of unlawfully monopolizing search. A handful of antitrust activists are trying to make sure the world sees all the action.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Amazon Upgrades Alexa for the ChatGPT Era
A sweeping upgrade to Amazon’s Alexa taps AI technology like that behind ChatGPT and also allows the virtual assistant to attempt to read body language.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
TikTok Shop Has a Snail Slime Problem
TikTok Shop, which launched in the US last week, is littered with impossibly cheap—and fake—products. Snail slime is just the beginning.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Pay Transparency Is Sweeping Across the US
New York joined a wave of states that require pay transparency in job ads. New data suggests most US postings now include a salary range, but they are sometimes laughably vague.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Teachers Are Going All In on Generative AI
Surveys suggest teachers use generative AI more than students, to create lesson plans or more interesting word problems. Educators say it can save valuable time but must be used carefully.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Concrete Crisis Has the UK Literally Crumbling
Hundreds of schools, hospitals, and other public buildings made from RAAC, a cheap, lightweight concrete, have to close—the victims of quick fixes and decades of cost-cutting.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The iPhone 15 Opts for Intuitive AI, Not Generative AI
Apple ignored the tech industry's obsession with generative AI at the new iPhone launch, offering subtler AI features that make everyday tasks like photography and phone calls better.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Senators Want ChatGPT-Level AI to Require a Government License
A new US government body would force companies to seek a license before working on powerful AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4, under a bipartisan proposal by senators Richard Blumenthal and Josh Hawley.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
TikTok Is Spending $1.3 Billion to Dodge Bans in Europe
European politicians are nervous about where TikTok’s data goes. The company is spending big on local data centers, but analysts say it’s not enough.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Why This Award-Winning Piece of AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted
Matthew Allen’s AI art won first prize at the Colorado State Fair. But the US government has ruled it can’t be copyrighted because it’s too much “machine” and not enough “human.”Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Is the True Scale of New York’s Airbnb Apocalypse
A law meant to crack down on short-term rentals in New York City took effect Tuesday. Thousands have dropped off the map, but there are still hosts offering bookings that may break the law.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Britain Admits Defeat in Controversial Fight to Break Encryption
The UK government has admitted that the technology needed to securely scan encrypted messages sent on Signal and WhatsApp doesn’t exist, weakening its controversial Online Safety Bill.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The End of Airbnb in New York
Thousands of Airbnbs and other short-term rentals are expected to disappear from rental platforms as New York City begins enforcing tight restrictions.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How to Remove Your Personal Info From Google by Using Its ‘Results About You’ Tool
You can now set up alerts for whenever your home address, phone number, and email address appears in Search.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Controversial Right-to-Repair Car Law Makes a Surprising U-Turn
The Biden administration has changed its mind about a Massachusetts state law giving mechanics and car owners access to more diagnostic data.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse
A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meet Aleph Alpha, Europe’s Answer to OpenAI
The European Union is desperate for its own artificial intelligence giant. German startup Aleph Alpha might be its best hope.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
A developer used widely available AI tools to generate anti-Russian tweets and articles. The project is intended to highlight how cheap and easy it has become to create propaganda at scale.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
In a World of Fakes, Trump’s Real Mug Shot Matters
The first booking photo of a US president stands out among a sea of photoshops and AI-generated images online.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Meta Just Released a Coding Version of Llama 2
Code Llama may spur a new wave of experimentation around AI and programming—but it will also help Meta.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How AI Could Transform Email
Artificial intelligence may streamline a form of business communication that’s already super fake.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Kids Are Going Back to School. So Is ChatGPT
Teachers are caught between cracking down on cheating with generative AI and using it to help empower students. It’s going to be a challenging year.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
25 Years Ago Steve Jobs Launched the First iMac—and the Strategy That Saved Apple
The curvy translucent plastic design of the iMac was the test case for Steve Jobs' “whole-widget” strategy that led to the creation of the iPhone.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scammers Used ChatGPT to Unleash a Crypto Botnet on X
A botnet apparently connected to ChatGPT shows how easily, and effectively, artificial intelligence can be harnessed for disinformation.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This Showdown Between Humans and Chatbots Could Keep You Safe From Bad AI
Thousands of security experts, hackers, and college students competed to trick powerful text-generation systems into revealing their dark sides at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Letter Prompted Talk of AI Doomsday. Many Who Signed Weren't Actually AI Doomers
In March a viral letter called for a pause on AI development, warning that algorithms could outsmart humanity—but many experts who signed on did not believe the technology poses an existential risk.Read this story here. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices